Northwest Interagency Coordination Center: 8/3/2018 Oregon Department of Forestry Fire Update

Oregon Department of Forestry

Fire Protection Public Information Officer

24-hour contact # 503-945-7425

Jim Gersbach
Jim.Gersbach@regon.gov

Fire Update for Friday, Aug. 3, 2018

ODF team is heading to Sugar Pine-South Umpqua Complex where it will be in unified command

ODF Incident Management Team 1 is transferring instages today from the Garner Complex to the Sugar Pine-South Umpqua Complex. The complex of fires insoutheastern Douglas County has burned a combined area of almost 30,000 acres, including several thousand acres of forestlands protected by ODF. They will now be managed in unified command by ODF and a Northwest interagency team.

A team brought in from Florida is taking control of the Garner Complex, which is in final mop up and remains unchanged at 8,886 acres.

Ignition date: July 15, 2018

Cause: Lightning

Acres burned: 29,567

Personnel: About 2,000

Firefighters make good progress on South Valley Fire despite overnight winds

ODF's Incident Management Team 2 joined unified command of the fire yesterday with the Green Team from the Office of the Oregon State Fire Marshal.

Firefighters made good progress on the fire overnight despite strong winds. Unexpected easterly winds pushed the fire across control lines where it caused some fast runs in lighter fuels. Fire crews and dozers, with support of farmers, were able to stop the fire's spread.

All other sections of the fire are reported to look favorable this morning. Crews will continue reinforcing control lines by extinguishing hotspots. Some 172 homes are threatened by the fire and evacuations are in place. Structure protection task forces will continue to work around homes assessing for damage as well as mopping up.

A community meeting will be held at 6 p.m. tonight at the Fort Dalles Readiness Center, 402 E. Scenic Dr. in The Dalles.

Ignition date: Aug. 1, 2018

Cause: Human

Acres burned: Estimated at 20,000

Personnel: 488

Containment: 20%

Other recent fires

Taylor Creek Fire - Josephine County

This lightning-caused fire has grown to 33,591 acres. ODF is a cooperating agency on this fire, which is being managed by Northwest IMT # 2 and the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Blue Team.

Ignition date: July 15, 2018

Cause: Lightning

Acres burned: 33,591

Personnel: 1,154

Containment: 34%

Klondike Fire - Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest

Fire size is now at 23,460 acres. Containment remains at 5%.

Nearby is the Natchez Fire. Burning 15 miles southeast of Cave Junction, that fire is reported at 8,432 acres with containment unchanged at 15%.

Ignition date: July 15, 2018

Cause: Lightning

Personnel: 412

Containment: 5%

High to extreme fire danger across Oregon

Find the latest fire danger levels and restrictions at ODF's Fire Restrictions and Closures web page at
https://gisapps.odf.oregon.gov/firerestrictions/PFR.html

For photos and more information on Oregon wildfires and wildfire readiness, visit ODF's wildfire blog at:

http://wildfireoregondeptofforestry.blogspot.com/.

ODF 2018 FIRE STATISTICS

Fires and acres burned (as of Aug. 3, 2018)

Total fires = 620

Total acres burned = 33,300 *

* An estimate - does not include very recent fires or all acres of recent growth on existing fires

10-year average fires and acres burned (as of Aug. 3, 2018)

Total fires = 486

Total acres burned = 18,425

About this update

This update provides information chiefly about fires 10 acres or larger on land protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry. ODF provides fire protection on 16.2 million acres of private and state-owned forestland, and Bureau of Land Management forestlands west of the Cascades. ODF works closely with federal and local firefighting agencies to prevent and suppress fires.